Well the weekend with the cousins was a tremendous success. Friday night we had Brock (15) and Joshy (5) spend the night. Ian (10) was set to as well but things sometimes go awry and my sister made the executive decision to take him back to Grandma’s.
Nevertheless we were all up until 1am with Joshy and Noah waking somewhere around 7:30 and the rest of us rolling out of bed between 8 and 9. We had breakfast here at our house and then Les and Rich took the wee ones (read 2 and 3 year old) to watch Myk skate while I took Joshy and Ian to watch Noah play hockey. L & R then joined me at the arena to watch Noah since Myk was on for 3.5 hours.
After practice more executive decisions were made and R ended up taking Ian and the wee ones to Grandma’s for naps. Joashy and Noah were supposed to come with Les and I back to the other arena to watch Myk skate. We were about 1 block away from the arena when Les turned around to check that both boys were in the vehicle. Missing one child. In our bustle of 3 adults, 5 children and 2 vehicles we seemed to have left Josh behind. We turned around and raced back to the arena and found him playing with the same little boy he had been with all morning, never the wiser that his mother and aunt had left him in a strange place, in a strange city with a bunch of strangers. Crisis averted.
Saturday night I had 6 kids here as Ian was able to spend the night while Grandma and GRandpa took care of the wee ones while L & R were at a surprise 40th bday for their best friend. I was pretty exhausted but the kids were great. They even managed to be asleep by about 11 pm.
Sunday we vegged all morning and finally by about 2 I decided to take the kids to the theater. We haven’t been to the theater here yet and Open Season was still playing so off we went. The kids were thouroughly impressed. For those of you who can remember the old Cinema 4 here in PA, the Capitol in YK is smaller than that theater so the giant screen and the theater was practically empty so that made it all the better. With the busyness of the weekend it made bedtimes pretty early and simple last night. It was great.
For some reason I woke up at 5 am today and surfed the net until 7. We have started making a habit of walking to school and then I/we (when Trev is in town) walk the dog back through the fields behind our house (pictures to come later). I managed to catch up with some friends online today which was great and hung out at home waiting for my phone line to be fixed. After school, as always is the busy time of my day. Drum lessons for Tay (Thank you Dixie ), then a trip to find a costume for Tay ( the procratinator said he wasnt dressing up and then decided to be an army guy after his Dad and I nixed the idea of the Grim Reeper) and then home to carve the pumpkins.
I am wiped but happy that Halloween is tomorrow and then on Wednesday we officially own this house. We signed the papers last week (thank you Marc) but the official close is on Wednesday.
A busy week ahead with three little trick or treaters tomorrow and Trev out at site, Wednesday is small group, Thursday will likely mean a trip to Saskatoon to fit Myk for her new skates, a Goal Tec lesson for Tay and a cruise of this store for a used drum set for Taylor.
So while I am always thinking of deep and thought provoking post most of them lately are turning out to be more updates of the craziness of my life. Soon though I hope to share some points of view of deeply philosophical stuff…. yea right I’ll leave that to the expert.
One more thing though, Rob (I almost used your old nickname) your comments made Trevor and I laugh so hard. Yes we bought the house. We must have beat out the Llama herders and the 80 year old mother of the 50 year old woman got rid of the 1987 pickles. I was actually hoping they would leave them as I would have loved to hear my mom say “Waste not want not” over those babies. The wallpaper is gone on Wednesday ( a little “we finally own it” celebration if anyone wants to join me) and yes we had thoughts of tearing down the walls in the three room over the garage for one large bonus room but for now we will leave it as there are lots of other things we want to do first. Come by for a visit sometime, even Trevor was asking why we hadn’t seen you yet. Now you know where we live… and bring your ladies as well.
That’s all for now
